Bernie Sanders Straight Talk: The GOP Is Sinking The Economy To Defeat Obama

By: Guest ContributorNov. 1st, 2011more from Guest Contributor

Sen. Bernie Sanders says what Democrats and the White House won’t. Republicans are intentionally sinking the economy in order to defeat Obama in 2012.

Here is the video from MSNBC:

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Host Al Sharpton asked Bernie Sanders if Republicans were trying to sink the ship in order to change captains. Sanders answered, “Yes, I think you’ll note that in the last couple of weeks the Democratic leadership have brought up, rather modest I must tell you, Al, doesn’t go anywhere near far enough. Modest proposals to protect the jobs of teachers, firemen, police officers, I don’t believe we got one Republican vote for that. This week, my understanding is we are going to bring forth legislation to start rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, that’s roads and bridges and rail systems. Everybody in America knows that we need to do that.”

After Sharpton described the Senate proposal, Sanders continued, “Al, Al, China is now spending nine percent of its GDP on infrastructure. They’re building thousands of miles of high speed rail, Europe, five percent. We are at two point two percent. We’re becoming the laughingstock of the entire world. You wanna put people to work tomorrow? Start rebuilding the infrastructure. It is incomprehensible to me that the Republicans are opposing that.”

Earlier in his comments, Sen. Sanders hit on exactly why they are opposing infrastructure and any other proposal that will create jobs. Republicans are intentionally tanking the economy in order to give themselves the best possible shot at defeating President Obama in 2012. The Obama administration may not say it, but Bernie Sanders did.

The comments that Axelrod made about Republicans’ top priority being defeating Obama may be too subtle for the American electorate. President Obama may have to come out and bluntly say that Republicans are intentionally keeping people unemployed because they are trying to defeat him. Whatever you may think of Barack Obama, his presidency is the only thing preventing Republicans from implementing the corporatist class warfare agenda that we have seen advanced by GOP governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, and Michigan nationally.

Barack Obama is all that is stopping the Republicans from winning their class war against the 99%. This isn’t partisan politics. Its reality and Bernie Sanders is one of the few members of Congress who is dealing in reality. Sen. Sanders told it like it is. Republicans have no qualms about ruining the lives of millions of Americans if it means defeating Obama.

The problem is that Republicans are putting politics first, and the solution is to replace those members of Congress with more men and women like Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders Straight Talk: The GOP Is Sinking The Economy To Defeat Obama was written by Guest Contributor for PoliticusUSA.

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14 Responses to Bernie Sanders Straight Talk: The GOP Is Sinking The Economy To Defeat Obama

Anne

Nov. 1st, 2011 at 10:15 am

Actually, their intent has been obvious for the entire time President Obama has occupied the White House. Senator McTurtle, aka Senator McDonnell, has even stated that that was their objective. Senator Sanders has only vocalized what is painfully apparent.
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- ptsherman
  
  Nov. 1st, 2011 at 11:48 am
  
  While most can agree this is the case, we should be careful about the emphasis we place on GOP stonewalling as a case for continued economic stagnation. After all, if they DO somehow capitulate to Obama’s wishes and things still don’t improve, it’ll be yet another reason for them to declare the POTUS policies as ineffective.
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  - Maple
    
    Nov. 1st, 2011 at 1:50 pm
    
    I’d suggest that only outside (global) forces could make things worse than they are. Infrastructure provides jobs that allows people to buy goods and services. No jobs = no demand = no production. There have been either none, or else incredibly stupid ideas, on the economy coming from the GOP. I don’t think they’re all crippled with low IQs, so it has to be that they want the U.S. economy to totally tank. My frustration is that this is SO obvious, why are the MSM not recognizing it and calling them on it?
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  - Ken Fitzer
    
    Nov. 1st, 2011 at 3:20 pm
    
    ptsherman, I am a big Obama supporter but I must say that should Obama’s policies be implemented and the DO fail then that’s a good arguement for letting him go and trying something/someone else. In essence you are arguing that having a constrained policy maker, as long as he’s of the right philosophical bent, is somehow a positive. Remember, that should somehow a Republican stumble his (or her) way in to the Oval Office, a Democratic minority can put the brakes on him as surely as the Republicans have done to the Democrats.
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  - jlt
    
    Nov. 1st, 2011 at 3:58 pm
    
    Thank you Mr. Sanders….Always spot on ! The stats bear this out…jobs, wall street etc!
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Reynardine

Nov. 1st, 2011 at 10:24 am

Damn straight. Those funny things dangling aren’t Christmas tree ornaments. The Emperor really has no pants.
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EmmaLib

Nov. 1st, 2011 at 11:29 am

The Greedy One Percent’s intent has been clear since Obama was elected as President, it is just now some are opening their eyes, these are our enemy from within, they are more destructive to America and her economy than Al Qaeda ever was or will be.

VOTE BLUE 2012
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Rita Smith

Nov. 1st, 2011 at 1:03 pm

I emailed John Boehner and told him that I did not appreciate him and the other Republicans voting against everything our President has tried to do to get our economy back on track. I also let him know that it is not Obama that has started a class warfare. It was the Republicans. And that I and others like me will be voting them out of office come 2012.
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The Platzner Post

Nov. 1st, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Straight talk!!!
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Gabriel

Nov. 1st, 2011 at 1:27 pm

I think my country should stand together and put aside childish frustration. A kingdom divided will only fall, but united, it will overcome all obstacles. It is time for the United States to become united, because if not, we will only be the architects of our own destruction.
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Catey

Nov. 1st, 2011 at 1:27 pm

This is why I love old people. They’re too old to care anymore about stepping on anyone’s toes and tell you the truth, no matter how unpleasant or tactless it might be.
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ah_clem

Nov. 1st, 2011 at 2:04 pm

Bernie is only saying what many of us have been thinking for a long time. It is about time it is out in the open and the Republican have to answer to the charges. The evidence of their tactics are everywhere.
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Denise

Nov. 2nd, 2011 at 2:52 pm

We should all read up on our history, especially as it pertains to the French Revolution. I see our republicans repeating the same mistakes of the nobility of France in the 1700′s and creating this class warfare. Their regime crumbled and the country was left in turmoil for years. It was a bloody and violent time and I don’t want to see America scarred by the same self-centered, egotistical, chest beating that happened over there 300 years ago.
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Marcia

Nov. 3rd, 2011 at 8:21 pm

Hey America! Watch the Europeans…Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it surely collapsed in a day. America wasn’t built in a day, but give it a bad day on Hell Street…oops, I meant Wall Street, and it can surely collapse in a day! We’ve seen it happen before. Don’t forget the 1929 Stock Market Crash! All the wealthy were jumping out of windows…do it today and they will land on the poor and middle class Occupiers who are, as always, standing and chanting, “Jump!” while they cushion their fall. As Thoreau once quoted, “It is a stupid society that runs an experiment to see what its breaking points are.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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